Home Harvest 2023: Host Call Out!

Jan 24, 2023

We’re happy to announce we’re working with Eat Well Tasmania and Sustainable Living Tasmania to hold our fourth annual “Home Harvest” garden tour in the nipaluna/Hobart region!  Special thanks to the City of Hobart for funding this great initiative.

Home Harvest is going to be a one day event on Sunday March 19th, 2023 in and around nipaluna/Hobart where productive gardens open their gates to invite the public in to have a look – best day ever right?! The main aim is that people are inspired to start (or continue) to grow their own food to increase local resilience and for all round general health and wellbeing.

Right now we’re doing a big callout to find more productive gardens in the Hobart municipality who’d like to be included. Keen? click here to sign up today! For more information, read on below…

HOST INFORMATION

To be a host you need these things:

  • A productive garden! This can be tiny, small, large or massive – there are no limitations on scale and we aim to show a large range of diverse gardens of all shapes and sizes. A productive garden can include vegetables beds, orchards, animals, compost systems – or it might be a balcony garden with one herb garden. We want them all!
  • To be either in, or very close to the Hobart municipality.
  • Up for a chat – they’ll be a lot of questions on the day and you’ll be required to show people around and explain what’s happening in your patch.
  • Available on March 19th for a set amount of hours. The hours you open your gate are up to you and will be clearly promoted so people only come in this time.
  • Passionate about growing food in urban spaces!
  • You can be a private garden or a community space and we wholeheartedly welcome people who are renting.
  • Your garden should be a real, productive garden – it does not have to be picture-perfect. Visitors want to learn and get inspired, and if you meet all the above criteria, your garden will be perfect as it is.

Keen? click here to sign up today!

WHAT SUPPORT DO YOU RECEIVE TO DO THIS?

  • There is a small fee to reimburse you for your time of $100.
  • We will provide you with a “Home Harvest” host sign that can be attached to your fence/gate so people know you are part of the tour and can easily find you.
  • Prior to the day we’ll drop off some free gardening resources you can hand out to visitors to help them get growing and composting.

IS HOME HARVEST FREE FOR FOLKS?

Yes, for people wanting to come along on the day there’s no charge at all.

Home Harvest is a partnership project between Good Life Permaculture, Eat Well Tasmania, supported by Sustainable Living Tasmania and funded by the City of Hobart.

your thoughts:

2 Comments

  1. Gwen Smit

    Is home harvest still open to enter I live next to Truganni reserve Taroona and have a permaculture type garden which was introduced to me many years ago at TAFE by Hannah..my house is up for sale will this be a problem..I’m still lovingly caring for my garden though..cheers Gwen

    Reply
  2. Barbara

    Buongiorno, sono capitata qui perché seguo la permacultura e voglio imparare sempre qualcosa, mi piace il tuo modo di esporla! Homme harvest è unna bellissima e interessante iniziativa!
    Abito in Italia in un paese di montagna nella Liguria di ponente e abbiamo avviato un progetto che si chiama ORTI DI MONTAGNA e l’idea è proprio quella di far visitare gli orti alle persone oltre che a fare mercatino con i prodotti in esubero degli orti e far capire che la montagna ha le sue caratteristiche e peculiarità…trarremo ispirazione dal vostro progetto, grazie della condivisione!
    Barbara

    Reply

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


You might also like…

Our Goat Share!

Our Goat Share!

It brings me great joy to let you know that after living without goats for the past 6 months, we now have some again :-). If you're new here a bit of back story. I had goats for almost 6 years and loved them dearly - milking and feeding them daily (you can read a bit...

Reo Mesh Garden Arches

Reo Mesh Garden Arches

I'm a big fan of reinforcement mesh (aka reo mash) as a material to use for making simple and super strong and versatile structures for plants to grow on. I'm always keeping an eye out for scraps of the meh at our local tip shop, alas it's highly sort after. So...

The Stuff Of Dreams

The Stuff Of Dreams

In 2022/23 I collaborated with Australia reMade to ask people living in lutruwita/Tasmania what they wanted a climate-safe future to look like for their island - we received hundreds of responses. We then worked with local animator Vivien Mason to turn them into a...

The Voice To Parliament Referendum

The Voice To Parliament Referendum

Later this year (2023) Australia we'll be asked to vote in a referendum on whether we should change our constitution to enshrine a First Nations Voice to Parliament. This is a moment not to be underestimated, rather a moment to join in on, a moment to get deeply...

Verticillium Wilt In Your Fruit Trees? Bugger.

Verticillium Wilt In Your Fruit Trees? Bugger.

Over the past few years I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with my two apricot trees as they've never really thrived. Symptoms included not fruiting well, sparse leaf and dead wood starting to appear in the canopy branches. Finally this year while we were...

The Flower Power Project

The Flower Power Project

A new project is brewing. This one has come from my dear friend Nadia Danti's brain and I was lucky enough to be invited to join in - it’s a goody. It's a seasonal project where we grow flowers (mostly dahlias) specifically to give away* to people doing meaningful...

How To Make Yacon Syrup

How To Make Yacon Syrup

I grew Yacon/Peruvian ground apple (Smallanthus sonchifolius) for the first time this past season and I'm a huge fan. I scored the tubers from a fellow keen gardener, Matt, who lives around the corner from me. He popped a few tubers in my hand and I popped them in my...

Home Harvest: Thoughts & A Virtual Tour 2023

Home Harvest: Thoughts & A Virtual Tour 2023

Home Harvest is an edible garden trail around nipaluna/Hobart that we started in collaboration with the City of Hobart in 2020. Here’s the latest one from 2023 – it was an absolute ripper of a day! Over 700 people took themselves around to some incredibly diverse edible gardens and just had such a great time. […]

Crowdsourcing Photos For My New Book!

Crowdsourcing Photos For My New Book!

Hi Friends, I’m in the process of writing my second book about how to grow food in any climate in Australia (due out late 2023 with Affirm Press). As it’s covering the whole, vast country I would so very dearly love to include photos of edible gardens in different climates to show folks what’s possible […]

Mounding Potatoes – Or Not

Mounding Potatoes – Or Not

There are many varieties of potatoes (aka spuds) but only two key categories they all fall into. Determinate and indeterminate. Determinate potatoes don’t grow very tall and only produce spuds in one layer of soil so you don’t need to mound them. They also generally mature quicker than indeterminate types, a good thing to know […]

Eat Those Weeds

Eat Those Weeds

I’m a big fan of eating weeds. But first, what even is a weed? A common description is that it’s simply a plant in the wrong place – meaning us humans don’t want it there as it may be compromising the ecological integrity of that place or crowding other plants we want to thrive. But […]